Pakistan, Afghanistan border fencing row resolved: official
The Hindu
Fencing has been a contentious issue in Pakistan-Afghanistan ties because the Afghans dispute the border demarcation done during the colonial period.
Pakistan and Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have resolved the recent row over border fencing by agreeing that further work on the project that led to a tense situation would be done through consensus, a media report said on December 25.
A senior official, who spoke to a group of journalists on the background on Friday, said it has been decided at a senior level that fencing-related issues would in the future be dealt with through mutual agreement, he said.
The official, however, did not exactly specify at which level the talks between Pakistan and the de facto Afghan government were held after Wednesday’s incident in which and took away spools of barbed wire, the Dawn newspaper reported.